Muriel Braconnier
Voices

Brought up in jazz culture, Muriel Braconnier is interested in contemporary forms of all artistic disciplines. Her musical training, which began with instruments (guitar, percussion), focused on voice work and improvisation, notably alongside teachers such as Christian Bon and Valérie Pérez. For the past ten years, she has been involved in the Labo Band project.

Laure Degras
Voices

From a very music-loving West Indian family, the sounds of quadrilles, Gwo-ka, Haitian compas, salsas, bebop, opera, blues, gospel, funk, variety, sound poetry, "trad" and classical music from all over the world, and electroacoustics accompanied her early career. Later, classical guitar, djembe, bass and then the hijacking of all kinds of string instruments, small percussion instruments and the recording of everyday sounds, combined with vocal improvisation, built up her well-rounded (amateur) musical practice. She joined the GMEM Labo Band in 2018.

Cristiano Carpanini
Trumpeter

In perpetual motion, the Labo band is for Cristiano Carpanini an open, active, inclusive, instructive and free space for sound collusion. An audiophile, he taught himself to play the trumpet, taking lessons from Guido Mazzon (1946), cousin of P.P. Pasolini, and more recently from Christophe Leloil from Normandy. Cristiano Carpanini would like to thank all the musician friends who shared their knowledge with him, including Stéphane Mazard who has just passed away.

Lucia Cervini
Pianist

A native of Brazil, Lucia completed her musical training in her home country, culminating in a Doctorate in Music (Unicamp).
During her training, she won several prizes in Brazil as a soloist and chamber musician. She was adjunct professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) and co-founder of NuMC - Centre for Contemporary Music (UFPel), which conducts research, interpretation and dissemination of the contemporary repertoire.
In France, Lucia holds a Diplôme d'État and a post-doctorate at Ircam (Paris, 2015) and is currently training in Eutonie (somathic education).
Lucia is currently a teacher at music schools in Les Pennes Mirabeau (EMMTD) and Gardanne (EMMG). With Marie Benichou, she forms the duo Reflets (flute and piano) and, since 2013, has been a member of the Marseille Labo Band improvisation group at the GMEM.

Charles Karsenty
Tenor saxophonist, bass clarinettist, composer

Charles Karsenty took part in the creation of the famous street brass band "Accoules Sax", has composed for theater and dance, and in 2022 created a jazz quartet performing his own compositions, the "Big Tree Orchestra".

Hélène Pagliari
Bassist

In the 1980s, her father gave her her first musical instrument. She started out with several guitars and learned to play the pompe. Over the years, she picked up other instruments (Xaphoon, voice, piano...) as well as other disciplines (dance, sculpture...).
She only played improvised music, without knowing that it was a discipline in its own right. Then, in the 2000s, she discovered jazz and the double bass. She then instinctively pushed open the door of a music conservatory and met the symphony orchestra.
Along the way, she crossed paths with Joëlle Léandre, then Barre Phillips... and Jean-Marc Montera's Labo Band.
At the same time, as a teacher of Hatha Yoga and art therapy, she has a project based on warming up the musician.

Philippe Petit
Concrete electro

A musical activist for 40 years, Philippe Petit is also a hyperactive "sound director", who signs his records on multiple international labels and has played hundreds of dates around the world.
Particularly interested in film music and its soundtracks, he likes to be presented as a "musical travel agent" who "grabs his listeners by the ears" and takes them...
- www.philippepetit.info

Barbara Sarreau
Choreographer, performer and teacher

Barbara Sarreau is a choreographer, performer and teacher of contemporary dance. After working with national choreographic centers, she founded her own company in 1998, pursuing an international approach. She observes and decodes places and spaces to approach the extreme simplicity of gesture and repetitive processes, questioning the moment of choreography and proposing performances in unusual places. That's why this body is at work. We don't know what this body can do, but it can do a lot. An immense flowering.